The initial video footage showed a Native American man banging a drum while a teen in a red MAGA hat stood just inches away from him, smiling smugly, while scores of other teens in MAGA hats and Covington Catholic gear jeered. Soon afterward, though, more footage emerged showing the events that led up to the confrontation. That footage has been hotly debated, and the student in the MAGA cap, Nick Sandmann, also issued a statement detailing what he said was his side of the story.

Analyst and writer Jodi Jacobson posted a thread about the other footage on Twitter explaining why she doesn’t see the unedited version of the footage as any sort of vindication of the students.

So I watched the “unedited” version of the video which is not the same video but I did it so you don’t have to. Here’s what happened.

…. but for the better part of the time they were there jeering and being rude but not close enough to do anything. Then, suddenly, some of them start to whip the others up and they begin dancing around and getting louder

In the footage, Jacobson says, the Catholic students were “jeering and being rude” to four Black men who were also present on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Then the boys began to engage in behavior that made it look as though they were “mimicking apes.”

One rips his jacket and two shirts off and they get riled up and from what it looked like to me, were mimicking apeS which, you know, racist. RACIST. then they start to advance on the Black men

At that time there is still space between them and the Black men but as Mr. Phillips said, he and others in a small group of elders began walking peacefully between the boys on one side and the Black men on the other.

Another person posted a picture of Covington Catholic students in blackface.

Jacobson tweeted that there was “unquestionably a mob mentality” and that the students’ racism was evident in their “tomahawk chops & whooping.”

there was unquestionably a mob mentality. IT WAS THE INDIGENOUS MARCH… why were these boys there in MAGA hats? Why was a Catholic school ostensibly non profit carting kids around w/MAGA hats? And what more do U need to know than tomahawk chops & whooping? (not U, rhetorically)

Other Twitter users weighed in on the thread, sharing their opinions about the confrontation.

I hope the teachers who were chaperoning are also held accountable. They could have shut that down quickly, but they chose not to. When I was in school & we went on field trips, we had to be on our best behavior. As we were representing our school.